1979 Ole Miss Rebels football team

1979 Ole Miss Rebels football
Conference Southeastern Conference
1979 record 4–7 (3–3 SEC)
Head coach Steve Sloan (2nd season)
Captain LB Eddy Householder
DE John Peel
FB Leon Perry
Home stadium Hemingway Stadium (35,000)
Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium(46,000)
1979 SEC football standings
Conf  Overall
TeamW L T  W L T
No. 1 Alabama $ 6 –0 –0  12 –0 –0
Georgia 5 –1 –0  6 –5 –0
No. 16 Auburn 4 –2 –0  8 –3 –0
LSU 4 –2 –0  7 –5 –0
Tennessee 3 –3 –0  7 –5 –0
Kentucky 3 –3 –0  5 –6 –0
Ole Miss 3 –3 –0  4 –7 –0
Mississippi State 2 –4 –0  3 –8 –0
Vanderbilt 0 –6 –0  1 –10 –0
Florida 0 –6 –0  0 –10 –1
  • $ – Conference champion
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1979 Ole Miss Rebels football team represented the University of Mississippi during the 1979 NCAA Division I-A football season.

Schedule

Date Time Opponent# Rank# Site TV Result Attendance
September 15 7:00 PM at Memphis* Liberty Bowl Stadium • Memphis, Tennessee W 38–34   53,166
September 22 2:30 PM No. 9 Missouri* Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi ABC L 7–33   46,000
September 29 6:00 PM Southern Miss* Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, MS L 8–38   46,720
October 6 1:00 PM Georgia Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi L 21–24   35,912
October 13 2:00 PM at Kentucky Commonwealth Stadium • Lexington, Kentucky L 3–14   57,825
October 20 7:00 PM at South Carolina* Williams-Brice Stadium • Columbia, South Carolina L 14–21   56,407
October 27 1:00 PM Vanderbiltdagger Hemingway Stadium • Oxford, Mississippi (Rivalry) W 63–28   35,667
November 3 1:00 PM LSU Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Rivalry) L 24–28   45,548
November 10 2:30 PM at Tulane* Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans ABC L 15–49   45,647
November 17 1:00 PM No. 19 Tennessee Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi W 44–20   40,128
November 24 1:00 PM vs. Mississippi State Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium • Jackson, Mississippi (Egg Bowl) W 14–9   46,021
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

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Game summaries

Mississippi State

1 234Total
• Ole Miss 0 077 14
Mississippi St 3 600 9
  • MISS: John Fourcade 11/17, 143 Yds, 9 Rush, 40 Yds (second player in school history with 2,000 yards total offense in single season – A. Manning, 1969)

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References

  1. ↑ College Football @ Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2014-Dec-18.
  2. ↑ Palm Beach Post. 1979 Nov 25. Retrieved 2017-Sep-03.


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